Clothes-drier.



- 0. E. ENELL.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLIOATION nun MAR. 19, 1912.

Patented June 9, 1914.

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l I r l I l I 8: 1 1 i l I A TTORNEY OTTO EDWARD ENELL, 0F JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 9, 1914.

Application filed March 13, 1912. Serial No. 683,451.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, O'r'ro EDWARD ENnLn, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes-driers ada ted to be detachably secured to the sides of tie frame of a window opening or other opposed supports.

One of the objects of the invention is the production of a clothes-drier capable of being detachably secured between the guiding strips of a window frame, either on the inside or outside of the window, without any special fixtures or preparations therefor, and without interfering with the opening of the window. I

A further object is to provide a clot-hesdrier that is readily adjustable to different sizes of window openings and which automatically accommodates itself to Window guides of different widths.

Another object is to provide a simple and durable clothes-drier which is capable of being manufactured at low cost.

To these ends the invention consists in the parts, combinations and improvementshere in illustrated and described in their preferred embodiments, and set forth in. the appended claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed: Figure 1 is a top plan view of one form of the invention, Fig. 2 is a front view of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a left hand side View of Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary detail plan view of a side carrier arm, Fig. 5 is a. front view of Fig. 4, Fig. 6 is a section on the line 66 of Fig. 5, Fig. 7 is an enlarged fragmentary detail plan view of a center carrier arm,

Fig. 8 is a front view of Fig. 7 and Fig. 9

is a section on the line99 of Fig. 8.

In the said drawings, the numeral 10 represents a barwhich has one end bifurcated or slotted as, at 11, and the other end tapered as at 12. The slotted extremity is provided with a sleeve or collar 13. i The tapered end wedgingly engages a socket composed of jaws (14) and 14 The inner faces 15 and 15 being inclined to correspond to the taper of the end 12, a pin or bolt 17 passes through hinge ears 16 and 16 of the jaws (14.) and 14 so as't-o connect amount.

them pivotally together. The said pin 17 also passes through a slot 18in the end of the bar 10, to permit of endwise movement of the latter, the slot being closed at both ends to prevent the bar 10 from becoming detached from the socket device 14:. The ends of these jaws are broadened or extended vertically so as to secure increased bearing against the guide strips A, A between which the clamping device. is laced. The device 14, 14 automatically a justs itself to window guides of different widths by virtue of the spreading apart of the jaws due to the thrust of the tapered end 12 of the bar 10. In this way lateral rigidity is insured.

A flexible strut member 20 is received in the slot 11 and is held therein by a bolt 21 passing through registering apertures 22 in the bar 10 and strut 20. The support can thus be extended to adjust it to window openings of different widths within a certain range. The opposite end of the strut 20 is provided with pointed prongs'23 adapted to sink into the wood of which the window guide is usually made. The end of the strut 20 with the prongs 23 is constructed to straddle the sash cord B.- The jaws (14;) and 14 at the other end also permit the sash cord to pass unobstructed at that side.

The combined length of the bar 10 and strut 2O always exceeds the distance between the window guides by a predetermined When the clothes-drier is applied in position, the end of the device is first placed slantingly across the window opening with the jaws 14:, 14c" and the farther end of the :fiexible strut 2O lodged between the guide strips on opposite sides, after which the operator takes hold of and gives the strut a pull upwardly as far as it will go. The resiliency of the said strut 20 acts as a toggle both in forcing the tapered end 12 into engagement with the jaws (14) and 14 to clamp the latter firmly against the inner or side faces of the guide strips A, as well as in embedding the prongs 23 into the opposed A bracket 25 projects from the socket de vice 14, and is provided with an entablature 26 which carries a bolt 27. On the latter are pivotally supported a plurality of arms28, 2928 29 divided into two sets of three each, arms 28, 29 being the lower set and 28 29 the upper set, superimposed and independent one of the other. Each set or cluster of arms comprises a center arm 28, 28 and two side arms disposed one on each side of the center arm, and marked 29, 29

The center arm is provided with lower and upper similar hinge parts 31 of disk formation, and tail portions 32 which extend from the disks 31 have formed therewith right angular flanges 33, 34 of different length. Each tail projection 32 has a deep flange 33 and a shallowflange34 and the deep and shallow flanges are reversely disposed at opposite sides of the arm. Portions of the deep flanges 33 are opposite each other, and rivets 35 pass through them and the arm 28, which latter extends inwardly in proximity tov the center of the disk 31, whereby a strong and light hinge construction is obtained.

The side arms 29, 29 are provided with hinge .parts preferably constituted of one piece of material which envelops each arm on both of itssides, top and bottom lips 38. 39" being formed integrally with" the sides 37?, and bent over the top and bottom edges of the arm. The said side walls 37, 37 are continuously connected by the hinge eyes or loops. 37 which are offset to one side. Both the right and left side arms are disposed between the lower and upper hinge parts of the center arm. To this end the hinge eye 37 of arms 29 or 29 occupies but one half of this distance. lVhere the metal is cut away above or below the hinge eye,one

side wall, as 37, is hooked over the other sidewall, as shown at 30 to keep the side walls from spreading. Rivets 40 passing through the side walls 37, 37 and arm 29 or 29 connect these parts rigidly.

The upper and lower sets of arms are separated by a disk 42. Disks of similar nature are placed at top and bottom of the upper and lower sets of arms respectively. .These disks are of a light but rigid character, for this purpose they are provided with oppositely disposed annular grooves and ridges 43, 44 and have their rims flanged or bent over as shown at 45. To prevent the disks 42 from rotating and also to limit the outward swinging movement of the arms, an anchorage bolt 46 passes through them and also through a boss 47 on the bracket- 25. A thumb, nut 48 at the end of the bolt 46 i s adapted to clamp the said disks 42 firmly together. Spacing ferrules 49 interposed between each pair of disks prevent the latter from being distorted when the nut 48 is screwed up tight. A thumb-nut 50 at the end of the pivot bolt 27 applies pressure directly to the disks 42 to clamp the therebetween disposed arms 28, 29 and 28, 2.5) in a predetermined position. The said disks 42, which are of a size to accommodate the entire hinge parts of the arms, open up after the fashion of clamp jaws, when the pressure from the nut 50 is released, thereby enabling the arms to be readily moved into desired position.

It will be understood that. the device can be applied to either the outside or inside guides of the window frame without interfering with closing or opening of the window.

The operation of the invention will be readily gathered from the foregoing, and has in fact been explained as the description of structure proceeded.

Having described my invention what I. desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim is 1. A clothes-drier comprising a support adapted to span a window opening and including a flexible strut for exerting endwise thrust to maintain the support in position,

and clothes arms carried by said support.

2. A clothes-drier comprising a support adapted to span a window opening and composed of a rigid section having means at one end for bearing against one side of the window casing, and a flexible section extending from the other end ofsaid rigid section and having means for engaging the other side of the window casing, and clothes arms carried by the support at its end remote from said flexible section. V

3. A clothes-drier comprising a support adapted to span a window opening and having expansible means for clamping against a window guide strip, and means for expanding the first named means, in combination with clothes-arms carried by the support.

4. A clothes-drier comprising an arching support adapted to span a window opening and having means expanded by endwise thrust of the support for clamping against a window guide said support acting as a toggle to hold the device independently at any level of the window opening, in combination with clothes arms carried by the support.

5. A clothes-drier comprising a support adapted to span a window opening, vertically extended lateral bearing members of greater width than the support at one end thereof, means for forcing said members apart against the sides of a window guide, and clothes arms carried by the support.

6. A clothes-drier comprising a supportadapted to span a window opening and in cluding a clamp expansible sidewise between the guide strips of the window, and a flexible' strut adapted to expand said clamp,-the ends of said clamp and said strut being constructed to straddle the window cords, in combination with clothes arms carried by the support.

7. A clothes-drier comprising a support adapted to span a window opening, a socket receiving an end thereof and having jaws of greater width than itself said jaws being laterally expansible by the thrust of the support in said socket means, preventing detachment of said support from the socket, and clothes arms carried by said support.

8. A clothes-drier comprising a support adapted to span a window opening, a socket receiving an end thereof and having vertically widened jaws pivoted together adapted to be forced against the sides of a window guide strip by the pressure of said end of the support, and a clothes-arm bracket projecting from said socket.

9. A clothes-drier, having a support including expansible means for clamping laterally against the sides of a guide strip at one side of a window, a bendable strut forming a continuation of said support for engaging the other side of the window casing, said strut and support being longer than the window opening, and clothes arms carried by the support.

10. A clothes-drier comprising a support having a double jawed device adapted to be expanded sidewise between the strips of a window guide, a bracket projecting from one of the jaws of said device, and clothes arms mounted on said bracket.

11. A clothes-drier comprising a support having a device adapted to be expanded between the sides of a window guide, a bracket projecting from said device, disks carried by said bracket, and a plurality of sets of clothes arms also carried by the bracket and interposed between and separated by said disks.

12. In a clothes-drier, a device adapted to be held to a primary support, sets of arms mounted on a common pivot carried by said device, each of said sets comprising a central arm having a socket member receiving its inner end said member being provided with top and bottom disk-like hinge parts with vertical pivot holes, and side arms having their inner ends received in socket members having vertical hinge eyes, one superimposed on another between said disk-like parts.

13. In a clothes-drier, a device adapted to engage a primary support, an arm on said device having at its inner end top and bottom disk-like hinge plates with vertical pivot holes, said plates having projections extending along the top and bottom of the arm, said projections having their side portions bent at right angles to embrace the sides of the arm, the vertical flanges so formed being of unequal depth in each extension, there being a deep flange and a shallow flange at each side and reversely disposed at the two sides, and rivets passing through the deep flanges and the arm.

14. In a clothes-drier, a device adapted to be fastened to a primary support, an arm extending from said device having at its inner end a hinge member formed of asingle piece of sheet metal and presenting two side walls embracing the sides of the arm and continuously connected at the rear by a hinge eye or loop of reduced depth, the inner end of one of the side walls at the cut-away region so formed having hooked engagement with the other side wall, and rivets passing through the side walls of the hinge member and the arm.

15. A clothes-drier comprising apair of jaws adapted to be expanded between the inner sides of the guide strips of a window opening, a bracket extending from one of said jaws, clothes arms carried by said bracket in sets including a plurality of arms at the same level, disks interposed between and separating said sets and means connecting and anchoring said disks and arms.

16. In a clothesdrier, a device adapted to engage a primary support, sets of arms mounted on a common pivot carried by said device, each of said sets comprising a central arm having a socket member receiving its inner end and provided with top and bottom disk-like hinge parts with vertical pivot holes, and side arms having their inner ends received in socket members including vertical hinge eyes one superposed on another between said disk-like parts, the arms of each set lying in the same horizontal plane, said hinge eyes being of less height than their arms and together approximately equaling the distance between said disk-like arts. p Signed at the borough of Manhattan in the county of New York and State of New York this 8th day of March A. D. 1912. OTTO EDWARD ENELL. Witnesses:

H. C. KARLsoN, W. H. GEE.

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